Poems of john Keats

 Poems of john Keats

 Introduction:-

 

Keats was creative poet and his most of the poem in real life experience we found that. He creates not his identity in the poem, but we see that imagination of nature as beautiful in Keats poem. In his poem we know that life emotions, feelings, fantasy, melody, sadness, love and death as theme. He was love to art. Keats has made his mark as a narrative poet, a sonnet, an a writer of narrative poems of great merit. The poems Keats are flooded with sensuousness. It is about beauty, not about teaching or persuasion of beauty but emotions and feelings. John Keats was philosophical and nature poet. His most of poem in life reality and connected to nature as center. his poem in animal, birds, nature there life thought out given to images of nature. So now we explain Keats poem one by one.

   

• Ode to autumn

   

‘To Autumn’ was composed at Winchester in September 1819 and published in the volume of 1820. “How beautiful the season is now; how fine is the air…I never like stubble the short bits of dried plant stems left in a field after it has been cut fields so much as now…this struck me so much in my Sunday’s walk that I composed upon it. we see that autumn as center in the poem. here we see to imagination and autumn as felling of love and beauty.

“Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind”

Keats’ Ode To Autumn was loved and yet patronized as no more than a beautiful description of nature as an almost flawless piece of writing with nothing to say. It is now judged to be one of the greatest and richest of Keats’ poems. Autumn’s particular beauty is dependent upon it transience, humanity and the stanzas can be seen as moving through the season. as beginning with pre harvest ripeness, moving to the repletion complete full of harvest itself and concluding with the emptiness following the harvest but preceding winter.

•  Ode to psyche

  

In ‘Ode to Psyche’ 1819 Keats takes Psyche to be both a human maiden and the unworshipped goddess of the soul. In the poem, The Legend of Psyche is based on Greek mythology. Keats creates beautiful girls as god psyche. The legend of Psyche was told by Apuleius in ‘The Golden Asse’. . Psyche was one of the most beautiful of the Goddesses of the heaven. She was so beautiful that her beauty excited the jealousy of Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty. 

Due to this jealousy she decided to make Psyche behave in a shamefully ridiculous manner. we see that Cupid as god and heart of victim. but at that time Psyche to fall in love with him in that dreadful form.

Keats addresses Psyche, the Goddess, and seeks her pardon for exposing her love secrets. “And pardon that thy secrets should be sung”. He saw in a garden Psyche and Cupid lying together clasped in embrace in the deep forest. Psyche was never assigned any temple though she is prettier than many other Goddesses in the Greek mythology. His thoughts and feelings will serve as incense flowers, and other objects required for worship. 

Psyche will find a fitting sanctuary in no way inferior than that of other Gods and Goddesses. So at end that Psyche may enter the sacred temple to meet her lover Cupid.

• Ode to a nightingale

   

  

Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is considered one of the finest odes in English Literature. this poem is best ode to other odes by Keats. in this poem Keats real life experience and how sadness came in his personal life. it is express in this poem. Nightingale is a small brown European bird known especially for the beautiful song of the male bird which is usually heard during the night. The poem was inspired by the song of a nightingale which the poet heard in the gardens of his friend Charles Browne. we see that poem of nightingale moves the poet to the depth of his heart and creates in him a heartache and numbness as is created by the drinking of hemlock or some opiate. He thinks that the bird lives in a place of beauty. The poem presents the picture of the tragedy of human life. It brings out an expression pessimism and dejection of the poet. He composed this poem at the time when his heart was full of sorrow.

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time

I have been half in love with easeful Death”

we see that love and romance how express to Keats’s mind. here we see that the poem presents the picture of the tragedy of human life.

It gives expression to Keats’s melancholy and dejection. And this poem was so long and sentence is tragic and melodic of poet feelings in this poem. In the poem expresses the poet’s love of romance and his deep sense of delight in nature and his interest in the Greek Mythology.

• Ode on a Grecian urn

   

In this poem, ‘Ode on a Grecian’ Unexpressed the poet’s love of romance, deep delight in nature and his interest in the Greek mythology. This poem includes the famous line: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”. we find the reference to Flora, Dryad, and Bacchus that are all related to Greek mythology. John Keats wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn in May 1819. In the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn has concrete imagery, richness of coloring and the elements of charm and deep human interest.

He recited the poem when he went for a walk with his friend Haydon. And how it was Haydon who had introduced John Keats to the Elgin Marbles. It was Haydon who aroused his interest in Greek sculpture. and here we see to Keats’s unheard and silence. urn speaks to truth at unheard voice. Urn as motionless and emotional world we see here. urn has preserves the time for ages. there are lover flute-player and singing song as unheard way.

 in the poem ‘urn’ as symbols of beauty but here melody, pain, and sadness, motion of lover, silence and identity of world. we can see that paradox thought in this poem line:

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

Are sweeter; therefore ye soft pipes, play on”

Keats finds this unheard music and the melody of silence. The beauty of Greek Sculptural Art provides the apparent theme. so at end that The Urn states that there is not merely a close relationship but an actual identity between beauty and truth.